It never has been, and if it ever were we wouldn't have needed all those statues of the chick with the scales and the blindfold as propaganda.
They carry batons here, too. And Tasers, and pepper spray, and lots of other weapons that are not guns.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Matthew 24:36.
RTFM, noob.
The retracting clip is noted in the marketing literature. You can feel it as well, if you have your finger on it and you're paying attention when you deploy the point. But the change is subtle, so maybe it'd be tough to notice visually.
I have not gotten the twist mechanism out of mine yet, but I have a hunch that the clip dropping into its home is actually part of the detent mechanism as well.
What? I don't have to "imagine" anything. I literally owned one, for two years. Nothing was "sacrificed" on the Priv. It was in all aspects a completely modern phone, even managing to include a headphone jack and memory card slot, a curved edge display, wireless charging, and a 3400 mAh battery. And don't try to come at me about battery capacity, either. Just to name an example, its contemporary in the Galaxy S7 had a 3000 mAh battery, was the flagship phone of its time, and sold bucketloads of units.
Your argument is bullshit. Slider phones aren't made because manufacturers don't want to make them -- be that for low projected sales reasons or whatever else -- not because there is any physical reason they can't.
The Priv wasn't. Read the entire post. The Priv from Blackberry/TCL had a slider keyboard and altogether was 9.5mm thick. My current Moto G Power 5G is 8.5. An iPhone 16 is 8.25. This is not an appreciable difference.
Obviously there's not any technical reason anyone couldn't make a modern slider as thin as current slates, it's just that with the discontinuation of the Priv nobody does. And that's not even getting into fixed keyboard designs.
I had one of those for a while. That was the best worst phone I ever owned. It was awesome at absolutely everything except being a phone...
People who want a keyboard, that's who.
I don't get why people go around acting like these phones did not physically exist in the past in significant numbers, and both the "expense" and thickness problems were not, in fact, problems.
My old Galaxy S Relay 4G was not appreciably any thicker than my current phone is with its case on it. And the Blackberry Priv I had after that was still exactly as thin as current modern phones.
From what I recall this model had some exposed test pads or something on the board under the cover that were connected to the USB port. The wireless charging adapter had a little pigtail that you kind of wedged in there on top of the pads and that did the trick.
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